ROL vs. WY, NVR, PHM, WSO, LII, WSO.B, EME, JHX, MAS, and OC
Should you be buying Rollins stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rollins include Weyerhaeuser (WY), NVR (NVR), PulteGroup (PHM), Watsco (WSO), Lennox International (LII), Watsco (WSO.B), EMCOR Group (EME), James Hardie Industries (JHX), Masco (MAS), and Owens Corning (OC). These companies are all part of the "construction" sector.
Weyerhaeuser (NYSE:WY) and Rollins (NYSE:ROL) are both large-cap construction companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Weyerhaeuser received 234 more outperform votes than Rollins when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.80% of users gave Weyerhaeuser an outperform vote while only 62.02% of users gave Rollins an outperform vote.
83.0% of Weyerhaeuser shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.8% of Rollins shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Weyerhaeuser shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Rollins shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Rollins has a net margin of 13.94% compared to Rollins' net margin of 10.57%. Weyerhaeuser's return on equity of 37.73% beat Rollins' return on equity.
Weyerhaeuser has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rollins has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Weyerhaeuser has higher revenue and earnings than Rollins. Weyerhaeuser is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rollins, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Weyerhaeuser pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Rollins pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Weyerhaeuser pays out 72.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rollins pays out 67.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Weyerhaeuser has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Rollins has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Weyerhaeuser had 6 more articles in the media than Rollins. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Weyerhaeuser and 12 mentions for Rollins. Weyerhaeuser's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Rollins' score of 0.45 indicating that Rollins is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Weyerhaeuser presently has a consensus price target of $37.67, indicating a potential upside of 20.00%. Rollins has a consensus price target of $47.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.80%. Given Rollins' higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Weyerhaeuser is more favorable than Rollins.
Summary
Rollins beats Weyerhaeuser on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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